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Julian Cole
Bombs blow back in NATO's face BOMBS can make strange bedfellows of us. So it is that the traditional Tory and the dithering pacifist can find themselves sharing a soapbox. The Nato bombing of Serbia brings old arguments to the surface. At such times
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What a waste of cash
We have just received Your Essential Guide to York of York Council's Service' and The York Citizen Charter and noted this cost approximately 32p per resident to produce. We cannot see how City of York Council can justify spending more than £32,000 boasting
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Gagged over the merger of York colleges
As a student at York Sixth Form College (or "York College"), I have followed the recent newspaper coverage of the merger with York College of Further and Higher Education with alarm. I find it worrying that in this day and age and in this country, popular
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Barton set sights on magnificent seventh
The brilliant Barton, unbeaten in six races this season, can make it a magnificent seven at Aintree tomorrow. The Tim Easterby-trained gelding bids for the opening £30,000 Martell Mersey Novices' Hurdle and will again have the services of Lorcan Wyer.
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Naz reveals his burning ambition
A flaming desire to be recognised as the greatest featherweight in the world will spell disaster for Scarborough's Paul Ingle, according to Prince Naseem Hamed. The Sheffield ring king has warned Ingle to expect a better than ever Prince when they meet
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Ban keeps defender away from Lions
Beleagured York City have suffered a fresh blow. On-loan defender Matthew Hocking, who made such an impressive impact in his first start as a Minsterman against Luton Town in midweek, is out of Saturday's visit of Millwall. The 21-year-old Hocking serves
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Wasps track flying winger
Leroy McKenzie was set to wing in to Huntington Stadium today for what could be the first in a trio of new signings by York Wasps. The former Hull Sharks winger will resurrect his rugby league career with the Wasps if, as expected, he signs a deal this
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A new Morris dancing team aims to keep in step with North Yorkshire's traditional dances.
Morris dancers, from left, Chris Stephenson, Paul Whitehead and Janis Yeoman at the Jug Inn in Chapel Haddlesey The Fourp'ney Plough team has just started a pub tour of the Selby area, and plans to dance out at a different pub each month to keep an age-old
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Pressure mounts to close second A64 gap
Pressure to close a second gap on the A64 near York was rising today after police revealed there have been 22 serious accidents there in little more than four years. The Highways Agency announced last week that a gap in the central reservation at Colton
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Mother injured after falling 200ft
A mother from York was left with severe spinal injuries after falling 200 feet on a country walk with her family. Betty Routledge, of Upper Poppleton, is in Royal Preston Hospital and is due to be transferred to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield on Monday
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I can't abide this, Cliff
I consider myself a tolerant sort of person but would quite happily strangle the individual responsible for encouraging Sir Cliff Richard to sing at the Davis Cup recently. Only a couple of years ago much to my display the then bearded wonder raced in
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Bee disease probe
I have become interested in the possibility of wild colonies of bees continuing to exist in areas infested with varroa. This may be due to some inbuilt tolerance of the bee, some peculiarity of the environment or a combination of both. To further my investigations
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Arms and the IRA
I'm glad the war in Northern Ireland is over although, what with all that blarney about 'hearts and minds' I hadn't twigged that we were at war. I was as surprised as anyone when we were told that so-called terrorists convicted of vicious killings were
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I remember it well
In reply to Mike Usherwood's letter (Evening Press, April 1), I remember the state of our country when we had a Yorkshire Labour Prime Minister. But remember Mike, he was not an MP for a Yorkshire city - we are not that daft. Anyhow, we can have another
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Heworth relegation fight reaching climax
Battling Heworth are hoping that home is where the heart is as they look for a grandstand finish to secure their National Conference premier division status next season. The Villagers must win their remaining two games, both at Elm Park Way, to ensure
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Never hurt a fly
Call off the swat teams. Put the bug busting spray back in the cupboard. Unfurl your newspaper. That housefly deserves to live. At least it does if it is the snappily-named Phaonia jaroschewskii - which has been given "priority species" status by the
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We must save their lives now
Good can emerge even from something as wicked as the Kosovan exodus. It has taken the world too long to wake up to the despair caused by President Slobodan Milosevic's evil ethnic cleansing programme. But now that we have, there are examples everywhere
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House fly is 'species at risk'
They buzz around our heads, trample on our food and deposit germs in our favourite meals. Despite the best efforts of the most accomplished swatters, houseflies continue to pester all who cross their flight path. But now the much-maligned insect has been
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Lucky card trio splash the cash in an Instant
Three lucky York friends who won £20,000 on a lottery instant card are almost spent up - after just three weeks. INSTANT winners: Simon Allen, Owen Buckle and Sam McKee ready to run an egg and spoon race with Camelot representative Kath Wilson Picture
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Council's concrete calamity
Taxpayers face a £3,000 bill after a blunder led to a York park being smothered in asphalt. John Tull, right, and David Horwell with the new concrete entrance to Hob Moor When a muddy entrance to Hob Moor, Holgate, was churned up by countless feet and
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Give and let live
We have all seen the human devastation caused by the Yugoslavian war. Pictures on the television and in the press have captured the human misery of the Kosovan exodus. But they still did not prepare Sally Burnheim of the United Nations Children's Fund
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For God's sake please help us
The Evening Press today launches an appeal to relieve the desperate plight of the refugee children of Kosovo. John Layfield, of Yorkshire Water, with some of the water purification equipment being sent to aid refugees We are asking readers to help UNICEF
